Page: Information about Thomas Blossom's travel across the Atlantic to America

Text: …the Speedwell, the leaky little ship which started to accompany the Mayflower in 1620, but which was forced to turn back to Plymouth in England because of its un-seaworthy condition. Many of the Speedwell’s passengers were transferred to the Mayflower, while others, including Robert Cushman and Thomas Blossom, decided to return to Leyden and await a later opportunity to migrate to the New World.
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Blossom and his family were in Leyden by 1609 as members of Mr. John Robinson’s congregation; he was a passenger on the Speedwell in 1620; returned to Leyden after the failure of that ship, and came to New England on the second Mayflower in 1629…